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JeDEM Special Issue on Progress, Insights, and Implications of the Open Government Partnership Scholars and practitioners with expertise and experience in the area of open government are invited to submit a paper for an upcoming special issue of the Journal of e-Democracy and Open Government (JeDEM) focused on “Progress, Insights, and Implications of the Open Government Partnership.”

In 2016, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) celebrated its five-year anniversary. In those five years, governments have committed to over 2000 reforms aimed at improving transparency, accountability, and citizen participation. Much has changed in five years. Membership in the OGP has grown from 8 to 75 national level governments. While many new members have joined, there have also been departures: Hungary being the most recent. Currently, there is a pilot including 15 subnational governments designed to more proactively involve subnational governments in the initiative.

This special issue of JeDEM is dedicated to fostering a better understanding the progress made within the OGP over the past five years. It contributes to the scholarly and professional discourse about the implications and the insights gathered, thus far, on the future of the OGP and its members.

You have ideas how technology can contribute to deliver improved services for the benefit of all, to make countries more green, cities smarter, and people more happy?

We are interested …

You know about data modeling, have been working with XML, understand the concepts behind Big Data, the Semantic Web and public cryptography, and have written at least some tiny computer programs? Additionally you are a communicative team player and you would like to convince others about your ideas?

We are the leading Austrian research institution for public governance with long-lasting collaborations with the Ministry of Finance, the Austrian Chancellery, City of Vienna or the Federal Computing Centre.

You bring:

Graduate in Computer Science, business informatics or any other study with a clear and demonstrable focus on ICT

Master’s level or higher

You must bring deep interest to perform research on the intersection between public administration, political sciences, economy and the civil society.

You have been working in a scientific environment and you are accustomed with writing research proposals

You have been part of an international research project

You will get:

Regular, project-based employee contract, limited to 30.9.2019 but with the clear intention for extension.

Full coverage of social security and pension fund

Social amenities on the Campus Krems with a highly international and welcoming atmosphere

Excellent business contacts to high-ranked public sector officials as well as international research networks

A beautiful work place within the UNESCO world heritage region of the Wachau. See some of us hiking right behind your future workplace:

Interested? Please file you application including motivational letter and CV to irene.lehr@donau-uni.ac.at. Please note that there is a yet to be defined deadline for application we will publish here shortly.

The 2016 European Data Forum EDF16 took place in lovely Eindhoven at the Evoluon. Much shaped like a flying saucer, this spectacular venue for two days gave home to Europe’s elite on data related topics. This years event was all focused on big data and data science. The importance of Big Data was stressed by TU Eindhoven president Jan Mengelers, CEO Eindhoven University of Technology. According to him, 50% of innovation in the future will have to be attributed to data ecosystems. That’s an enormous amount of change.

We gave a presentation on the effects of Big Data Analytics on policy making in the 21st. century.